How Secure Are You?	The Internet has revolutionized business, but with any revolution comes new risks. Nothing is impenetrable; it is no longer enough to deploy security products and hope for the best. It takes highly-trained experts and sophisticated technology to stay ahead of today's software vulnerabilities, malicious insiders, and increasingly sophisticated hackers. It doesn't take a genius to realise that you only have to have one computer or network within your company, to be at risk. This risk presents various security threats. If your computer or network is connected to the Internet you are at even more risk. If you have suffered any form of breach of security, virus attack, network intrusion etc, you should contact us today. We perform an in-depth and granular analysis of your company network, security policies, firewalls, operating system configurations from desktop to server, Internet access policies and assess any current and future threats. With this information in hand we will establish an effective and comprehensive security policy for your organisation.

						Virus Threats
						The "Inside Job"
						Hacking
						Software Vulnerabilities
						Platform Holes
						Physical Security

Virus Threats
According to the International Computer Security Association (ICSA), there are well over 3,000,000 viruses in existence and over 200 new ones appearing almost monthly. In addition the average cost of virus infections in companies was estimated by the ICSA last year in Europe alone was estimated at over 8,000,000 euro and yet 30 to 40 percent of companies still have not implemented any perimeter virus protection. In the past, 90% of viruses were obtained through the use of "floppy disks" yet in more recent times over 90% of infections enter a computer by email, internet downloads and hostile web sites and only about 1% from floppy disk infections. The most common threat being e-mail worms in recent years. So many companies think they are safe by simply buying an anti-virus product and installing it and that's it ... it is frightening how many companies do not bother to ever update their anti-virus definitions which should be done from once a day to once a week depending on the anti-virus software they purchased. That alone is not going to save you from today's virus threats. An effective virus scanning system will utilise more than one anti-virus product, ie. so if a virus escapes one virus scanner it will be caught by the other, as you can probably see a trend developing here, you can imagine that some networks out there use even 3 or more virus scanners along with various content filtering solutions on their e-mail systems. For the latest virus threat information visit the Symantec Anti Virus Research Centre.

The Inside Job
It is more often than not that a disgruntled employee with all the keys and passwords to your network will cause total havoc the day you decide to dismiss them. The threat of this happening to any company with sensitive information is "very" real. This happens to hundreds of companies every year but often to avoid embarrassment this information is carefully kept away from the press. Companies who have experienced such "inside jobs" simply did not establish effective company policies over who has access to what and what happens when someone with high levels of access needs to be dismissed.

Software Vulnerabilities
Each and every piece of software has it's bugs and along with it's bugs a host of potential vulnerabilities. There are thousands of expert coders and those young hackers that are recently being dubbed 'script kiddies' out there that are continually looking for flaws in software and often new flaws are discovered, news gets out on the Internet and in a very short period of time, companies and individuals have been hit by the exploit.

Platform Holes
This is a very real problem in today's world. However a system that is effectively locked down and secured correctly can prevent such exploits from being run in the first place. Simply loading an operating system, applying the vendor patches and fixes etc will not guarantee you any level of security. There are many methods and practices of locking down computers that text-books and tutoring simply do not discuss and as a result poor security practices get implemented each and every day only to get their flaws proven soon after.

So How Can We Help You?
If you have suffered any form of breach of security, virus attack, network intrusion etc, you should contact us today. We take an in-depth look at the status of your company network, security policies, firewalls, operating system configurations from desktop to server, Internet access policies and assess any current and future threats. With this information in hand we will establish an effective security policy for your company, configure and lockdown your desktops and servers, re-design firewall implementations, implement IPSEC policies, configure data encryption of sensitive company data, configure virus scanning with automatic updates which get pushed to your servers and desktops, re-configure mail servers with virus scanning of incoming and outgoing mail, implement content scanning of all Internet and E-mail activity and set up of continuous security auditing. We get you back to focusing on what you do best, looking after your core business.